This has been variously interpreted as either another prefiguration of the Passion, or as a symbol of the heresy looming the followers, or as the Judaic messiah which, after having been struck by leper, has become the Antichrist.
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Communists, left-wing socialists, anarchists, and others have seen the Commune as a model for, or a prefiguration of, a " liberated " society, with a political system based on participatory democracy from the grass roots up.
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In that he refers to the Aeneid passage which Pallas in, killed by Turnus, was posed on branches of strawberry tree; the poet saw the colours of that plant a prefiguration of the flag of Italy and considered Pallas the first " national cause martyr ".
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Life-sized figures representing Old Testament prophets and kings ( Moses, David, Daniel, Jeremiah, Zachariah, and Isaiah ) stand around the base, holding plylacteries and books inscribed with verses from their respective texts, which were interpreted in the Middle Ages as typological prefigurations of the sacrifice of Christ.
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Raphael's " Transfiguration " can be considered a prefiguration of both Mannerism, as evidenced by the stylised, contorted poses of the figures at the bottom of the picture; and of Baroque painting, as evidenced by the dramatic tension imbued within those figures, and the strong use of chiaroscuro throughout.
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Boggs was writing in the 1970s about revolutionary movements in Russia, Italy, Spain, and the US New Left . The concept of prefiguration was further applied by Sheila Rowbotham to the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s, by Wini Breines to the US SDS; and by John L . Hammond to the Portuguese Revolution.
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Alvarus went to great lengths to prove that Muhammed was the " praecursor antichristi ", precursor to the antichrist, drawing on 42, interpreted by Gregory as prefigurations of the antichrist, with Muhammed; he used these beasts as symbols for the Muslim-Christian antagonisms, especially in the surrounding context of the persecutions of the 850s.
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Glenn Watkins observes that Urban VI was Neapolitan, and that the succession of Pius II elevated Gesualdo s maternal great-uncle to the throne of St . Peter under the name of Pius IV in 1559 . The presence of St . Catherine of Siena therefore appears as a prefiguration of Borromeo s own ascension to saintly status the very next year .
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Anarchists around the turn of the twentieth century clearly embraced the principle that means used to achieve any end must be consistent with that end, though they apparently did not use the term " prefiguration . " For example, James Guillaume, a comrade of Mikhail Bakunin, wrote, " How could one want an equalitarian and free society to issue from authoritarian organisation?
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The Epistle to the Hebrews recounts the description of the Ark, Holy of Holies, and " mercy seat ", and then goes on to portray the role of the " mercy seat " during Yom Kippur as a prefiguration of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians argues that Jesus had become a sin offering ( 2 Corinthians 5 : 21 ).
